It was good! Long five hour faculty orientation, ID card procured, computer in my cube, but waiting for ID info to go through so they can connect access and my login. People here are super sweet, and to some extent I'm being thrown into the deep end with lots of classes already on the books for instruction as well as the obligatory meetings with all the library departments to get up to speed as classes begin next week.
- Derrick

That's sort of how I feel about Google+: I can't cope with the damn stream, and don't want to take the time to prune it violently. By comparison, FB's at least not such a firehose (for me--I'm not fast to add "friends")
- Walt Crawford

On Facebook, I'll add most people but then make their posts invisible to me if they start broadcasting a bunch of apps, every second of their existence, or similar crap.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

My (awesome) boss has implemented a new policy of "productive play" whereby we're encouraged to spend a couple hours a week tinkering or experimenting with a new technology (but doesn't have to be technology as such). We're to email her from time to time with reports and ideas on how we might try these things for instruction.

Oh, that's true -- you guys don't know what we do now. Well, let's see, I've got a fledgling podcast up and going. We have video tutorials and don't do as much with them as I think we should, but I don't know where to take them next. We have a blog that as far as I know we don't use for instruction at all. That's a couple of quickies off the top of my head. Catherine, I like the trythis tag idea! I'll check yours out and start my own.
- Jason P

I've never created or been a member of a group based delicious account. Would it be possible to feed a bunch of LSW members delicious feeds into an LSW delicious account? Does one already exist, and I just don't know it? Mine is http://delicious.com/jokrausdu .
- Joe

Joe - you can definitely do that with Diigo - they have a group option and every time you bookmark something you have the option to share it with any groups you belong to. We have such groups for our SUNYLA library instruction and emerging technologies in library instruction committees (http://groups.diigo.com/groups...) and they work pretty well.
- Dana Longley

If you were turned down funding to buy clickers, There are a couple of services that will let you do text message polling. I thought that those might have some application in the classroom, since so many students have cell phones anyway.
- Bonnie Swoger

Your boss IS awesome for this. Our teachers would love this. Of course, we have the small problem of having a good bit of Web2.0 blocked.
- Susan

Awesome! Me too! Had much less to loose, still love that 19_ reading though. Way to go!
- SAM

Old school, Aden. Eat less, move more. No tricks, no diets. Started paying attention to how many calories are in things. Amongst the things I eat far fewer of as a result: bagels and tortillas. Stopped deluded myself into thinking that low-fat meant low-calorie. Stopped mindlessly grazing, especially at work. Started bringing a calorie-conscious lunch four times a week. Committed to 30 minutes on the elliptical every work morning and occasionally on a weekend day. Try to take a short walk after lunch too.
- Greg Schwartz

My sustainable strategy is to be very disciplined before and during work and then let go a bit on nights and weekends. Still more mindfully than before, but when it's time for fried chicken/ribs/ice cream/whatever, I eat ravenously and without regret.
- Greg Schwartz